Word: annexation
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...Economic opportunity, jobs, better housing and self-help projects in the ghettos may temporarily divert the rioting and bitterness, but for how long? One morning a dark-skinned, inarticulate, blues-singing Negro will wake up in his new ratless home and realize that he still lives in the annex. This won't be enough. Ghettos and colonies must be eradicated, not subsidized...
...Negroes had been staying at Algiers Manor, a tacky three-story annex behind a Woodward Avenue motel. Police records show that the place had been a haven for prostitution, narcotics and stolen ammunition; one night at the height of the riots, police hauled out a man with a rifle. Next night, after getting reports of sniping in the area, 16 police and National Guardsmen, guns blazing, burst into a ground-floor room in Algiers Manor, and manhandled its occupants-at least seven Negro men and two white girls-into spread-eagled positions against a wall. Then, said witnesses, Detroit police...
...contractor, the East Front of the Capitol was extended, the Rayburn House Office Building was built, remodeling was undertaken, and parking garages were built. Currently plans amounting to $109 million have been approved for an extension of the Capitol's West Front and for a third Library of Congress annex. In every case, a small, rotating group of architects--mostly friends of Stewart, Speaker McCormack or former Speaker Sam Rayburn--have won contracts for the projects. And in every case, the new construction brought nothing but outrage and revulsion from experts, who objected on economic, historical, and architectural grounds...
...GREECE & TURKEY. Both nations faced takeover in 1947-Greece from a savage struggle with Communist guerrillas, Turkey from Russian pressure to annex its northeastern territories and thereby force joint sovereignty over the strategic Bosporus and Dardanelles. The Truman Doctrine was chiefly responsible for thwarting Moscow's goals in both countries...
...sources high in the U.S. Post Office revealed today that all mail and correspondence scheduled for delivery this week to Truman was being re-routed from Missouri to the South Postal Annex in Boston...